Printer&#39;s galley.



PATENTED MAY 12, 1903..

E. HALL. PRINTERS GALLEY. APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 23, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

IIIllI IIIIII/Il/IIIIlIIIIIIIIIIlII/II UNTTED STATES Patented May 12, 1903.

EDGAR HALL, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

PRINTERS GALLEY.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 727,615, dated May 12, 1 903.

Application filed August 23, 1902. Serial No. 120,813. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR HALL, of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printers Galleys, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide for type-setters use an improved printers galley more firm and substantial in construction and more convenient and eflicient in use than those heretofore known.

My improved galley is peculiar, in having a rigid metallic side and end secured rectangularly to each other and to the'fiat bottom by solder and screws, while the remaining side is an inflexible wall pivoted to the edge of the bottom by a continuous hinge of novel construction extending the full length of the.

galley, such hinged side wall being adapted to be held firmly against the inclosed type and the end of the end wall by a suitable transverse clamp. A novel feature of thisv continuous hinge is that the edge of the gal ley-bottom is extended upwardly and either rolled to form a tubular pintle or projected obliquely to support a slotted tubular pintle mounted on such upturned edge, which is the preferable form. This tubular effect may also be secured by forming a deep slot in a metal rod and securing it on said edge. The pivoted side wall is con caved along its lower edge either to fit directly upon and embrace such pintle or to receive a continuous section of about two-thirds of a metal tube soldered or brazed therein, the concavity of which snugly embraces said pintle.

My galley is thus distinctive as a whole in consisting of two members only, which are detachable by a longitudinal movement,withdrawing the pintle endwise from the concavity of the other member, the parts bearing upon each other with sufficient friction to retain them ordinarily in position and permit the described movements.

In the drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are respectively top and bottom plans of my improved galley. Figs. 3 and 4 are enlarged transverse sections, one on the line 3 3 of Fig. l and the other showing the hinged side tipped down or opened. Fig. 5 is a detail showing a modification of the hinge-pintle.

A is the flat bottom of the galley, of stifii hardened brass. B and C are respectively the rigid side and end, fixed to each other cornerwise and to the bottom A by brazing or solder and by a series of marginal screws D.

E is the movable side parallel to and in practice about two inches from side B, both being thick inflexible brass bars smoothly finished. The side E is connected to the galley by a continuous hinge running its entire length, as best shown in Fig. 2, whereby it is firmly held at every point when in the closed position shown in Figs. 1, 2, and'3 and may swing open, as in Fig. 4.

The hinge shown in Figs. 3 and 4. is peculiar, in that its continuous pintle F is a metal tube slotted to receive the obliquely-set projecting edge of the bottom A,the slot-walls being closed upon this oblique portion and united thereto by solder, which stiffens and secures it firmly to such projecting edge. The lower edge of the movable side wall E is concaved to receive this pintle, and the mar ginal metal adjacent to such concavity extends in on a curve to embrace the pintle and allow the swinging movement. This bearing and marginal portion may be integral with the wall E, as shown in Fig. 4, or consist of a two-thirds section of a tube G, brazed thereto, as in Fig. 3.

In the modification, Fig. 5, the pintle F is integral with the bottom A, the projecting portion being rolled into tubular form and its extreme edge abutted and soldered along an intermediate line. 7

The clamp H (illustrated inFigs. land 3) has two sliding members with terminalhooks actuated by an eccentric 'lever to hold the side walls in close contact with the type or release them.

I claim as my invention 1. In a printers galley, the metallic bottom, side and end wall rigidly secured to each other, in combination with the swinging side E, connected thereto by a marginal hinge,.the pintle of which has a continuous lateral connection with the edge of the galley-bottom,

and is embraced by the edges of the swinging side, substantially as set forth.

2. In a printers galley,'the bottom, end and one side rigidly united, in combination with the swinging side E, concaved in its lower edge from end to end, and with a tubular pintle engaging therewith and supported upon the adjacent edge of the bottom, substantially as set forth.

3. The improved galley described, comprising the bott0m,end and one side firmly united together and a projecting edge of the bottom extending obliquely upward and provided with a slotted metallic pintle mounted on such projecting edge, in combination with the swinging side E having a continuous bearing '10 thereon formed of a major section of a metallic tube, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature inpresence of two witnesses.

EDGAR HALL. Witnesses:

A. H. SPENCER, H. W. LADD. 

